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- Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:48 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Mandala Airlines 737-200 Crash In Indonesia
- Replies: 145
- Views: 33420
RE: Mandala Airlines 737-200 Crash In Indonesia
What bugs me on that crash - it bears a similarity to a <acronym title="Balkan (Bulgaria)">LZ</acronym> Yak-40 crash back in 1988. A Yak-40 taking off from LBSF could just barely get airborne using all the runway length, shaved the perimeter fence and crashed down a river embankment. In that inciden...
Jump to post- Tue Jul 06, 2004 9:28 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Aviation Growth 'Risk To Planet'
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2939
RE: Saab 340/2000 Cargo...
I'm with Ironminds on this. First, much of these "shocking-result"-studies are vastly biased, second, the Greens and Leftists are biased themselves and most of these "shocking results" and "envirnomental concerns" are are sponsored by some industry trying to intimidate concurrency this way. Third, t...
Jump to post- Sat Jul 03, 2004 10:48 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Russian Familys Sue US Companys For Mid Air Crash
- Replies: 46
- Views: 7987
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
Russophile, do you read your postings before hitting the "post" button? Sorry, but what you're talking is really bovine faeces. No matter what russian rules say, they don't apply when flying in european airspace. So, get your facts straight, if you're flying in european airspace, TCAS has priority a...
Jump to post- Sun Jun 27, 2004 10:02 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Screeners Arrested For Stealing At MSY
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3963
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
*LOL*
And I thought they were paying the screeners enough so they can resist such a drive.
- Fri Jun 25, 2004 9:00 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Pick A Tug, Any Tug
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4821
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
Actually, the towbarless tugs("supertugs") have a traction advantage over the towbar designs, since a part of the airplane's weight is transferred to the tug. On a conventional towbar tug, you have to put a LOT of dead weight just for maintaining enough traction. And hauling a lot of dead weight aro...
Jump to post- Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:40 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Airbus: You Learn Something New Everyday
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7227
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
<I>Why do you think all fmr. Warsaw Pact countries try to get rid of Russsian made hardware asap?</I> Not true, some countries were/are for political/NATO-Internal reasons to phase out russian hardware. Take Bulgaria as an example. There was a lengthy discussion around their <acronym title="Aeroflot...
Jump to post- Fri Jun 25, 2004 10:38 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Airbus: You Learn Something New Everyday
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7227
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
@Tasha - In Europe, there is clearly a need for a bigger military transport aircraft. I am (negatively) amazed by you citing the Transall as a good transport. Let me tell you, almost NONE of the customers are happy with it in current times, as almost any Transall flight is facing payload and/or rang...
Jump to post- Fri Jun 25, 2004 10:18 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: AC: Forced Bilingual Policy May End Soon
- Replies: 195
- Views: 9597
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
<I>Forced bilngualism essentially means that only Quebecers will be hired (for the most part)</I> I don't get the point. You could be bilingual without being a Quebecer. It is just a matter of learning the languages. And I think, if you are in daily touch with a foreign language, you learn it easier...
Jump to post- Fri Jun 25, 2004 9:25 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: AC: Forced Bilingual Policy May End Soon
- Replies: 195
- Views: 9597
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
*LOL* Some of the postings in the thread were really ridiculous hillarious. I would like to see a box match between Yyz717 and FLYYUL. Well, though living in Germany, I am not german. I'm not enlisch either. Being fluent in 4 languages and having a limited(but still sufficient) command of another 2 ...
Jump to post- Wed Jun 23, 2004 11:22 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: El-Al, Weird Thing Happened While Plane Spotting
- Replies: 85
- Views: 16482
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
Actually, there has been ONE incident involving <acronym title="El Al (Israel)">LY</acronym> security and potential hijackers, where the El Al security guy has to use his weapon on swiss territory. I believe this happened in the 70's..a group of hijackers tried to take control over an UAL 707 at <ac...
Jump to post- Sat Mar 06, 2004 3:28 am
- Forum: Technical/Operations
- Topic: Polarized Sunglasses
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10512
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
Well...to add to Mirrodie's comment: Folks, unless staring directly into the sun for hours, the retinal damage by bright sunlight is just an urban legend. Most <acronym title="Universal Airways (USA)">UV</acronym> gets absorbed or reflected on the border of the tear flud film and the surrounding air...
Jump to post- Fri Dec 19, 2003 5:06 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Virgin Atlantic: Around The World In 80 Hours!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7506
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
Given the fact, I was several years old as you were born, it is highly interesting, how you can be my father...and I never remember my father being as retarded as you are. And, if you bothered to read - I was referring to SRB telling lies about WHO constructed the aircraft "his team". Well, perfectl...
Jump to post- Fri Dec 19, 2003 4:42 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: FedEx Crash At Memphis (Dec 18)
- Replies: 108
- Views: 23331
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
Reuters reports two runways closed:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=4017339
- Fri Dec 19, 2003 4:02 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: FedEx Crash At Memphis (Dec 18)
- Replies: 108
- Views: 23331
- Thu Dec 18, 2003 10:30 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Dec. 17: First Private Supersonic Flight Succeeds
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5539
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
I wonder why Brian Binnie was to fly the SpaceShipOne on the first powered flight. Looking at the hours the test pilots crew logged in both aircraft, I thought it would be rather Mike Melvill, since he has logged the most flight hours in the SpaceShipOne, while Binnie has the most hours in command o...
Jump to post- Thu Dec 18, 2003 10:24 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Virgin Atlantic: Around The World In 80 Hours!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7506
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
EmiratesA345: If you're bashing at me for no reason, I would suggest you to read THIS page: <a href="http://www.virginatlanticglobalflyer.com/about_the_aircraft.html" target=_blank>http://www.virginatlanticglobalflyer.com/about_the_aircraft.html</a> Read carefully, and here is what you will find in ...
Jump to post- Thu Dec 18, 2003 8:20 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Virgin Atlantic: Around The World In 80 Hours!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7506
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
"His team has constructed a specially designed aircraft"
Plain lie. The aircraft is (being) constructed by Scaled Composites. And SRB will definitively not the first to do this. Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager did it back in 1986 with Burt Rutan's Voyager.
Check six and get your facts straight
- Wed Dec 17, 2003 10:44 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Who Will Launch The 7E7?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5089
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
Sadly the original PanAm is long gone. They have done Boeing a favor lauhching almost every of their commercial airplanes. No doubt, even if nobody wanted the Dreamliner, PanAm would buy some of them just for the sake of it.
Jump to post- Mon Dec 15, 2003 10:12 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Whats The Oddest Thing You Have Seen Gate Checked?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5487
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
Back when I was living in Bulgaria, my father needed a set of pistons for his car's engine. Since they were a lot cheaper to get anywhere in western Europe, he made an arrangement with a colleague of him, who was to make a business trip to Austria. And now it comes: The pistons were in his carry-on ...
Jump to post- Mon Dec 15, 2003 9:55 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Boeing 808 Announcement "Expected"
- Replies: 73
- Views: 24040
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
For the naming - I don't see it being the 808. In this case, Boeing might face a lawsuit filed against them by Peugeot, which owns the rights(when it comes to model naming) on <acronym title="Albenga (Villanova d'Albenga) (- Clemente Panero) (ALL / LIMG), Italy">ALL</acronym> three-digit combination...
Jump to post- Mon Dec 15, 2003 9:41 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Could The ATR Have Saved Reeve Aleutian?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5011
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
L-188, The Dash8 could have been a viable alternative. Wideroe, a norwegian regional carrier operates a DAsh8 fleet to and from small remote strips in northern Norway,and apparently they're pretty satisfied with it in terms of wind, weather and snow resistance. The ATR's were basically designed more...
Jump to post- Tue Dec 09, 2003 5:27 am
- Forum: Technical/Operations
- Topic: Anyone Here Get LASIK/Corrective Vision Surgery?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5777
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
As an aspiring eye doctor myself, I have to jump in with a question - the pros and cons of LASIK have been discussed to death here. But how come nobody mentioned the radial keratotomy as a possible myopia surgery? It has been around long enough to prove itself, the long-term outcome is well document...
Jump to post- Fri Nov 21, 2003 8:47 am
- Forum: Technical/Operations
- Topic: "Landing Lights Extended"?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4875
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
Off the top of my head(do your own search for pictures here and you will see):
NAMC YS-11
Tu-154(all series)
Il-62/62M
Lockheed Electra
- Tue Nov 18, 2003 9:00 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Aircraft With Longest Continuous Production Run
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8025
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
Sovietjet:
The An-2 hasn't been continuosly produced. After all the production has been transferred to PZL, it has been cancelled some years ago. Just recently(last year), PZL reactivated the production line to fullfill an 40+ An-2 order for North Korea.
- Tue Nov 18, 2003 8:46 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Boeing Unveils 7E7 Dreamliner's Cabin
- Replies: 84
- Views: 19228
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
I wonder how anybody on this thread mistakes the Comet for having "large windows". Well (irony on) mistaking a four-engined get for a four-engined turboprop is just a minor glitch (irony off). Actually, it was the Vickers Viscount which has some really neat and large windows. As for the Comet issue ...
Jump to post- Mon Nov 17, 2003 1:22 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Heart Attack In Cockpit
- Replies: 28
- Views: 6320
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
The BritAir CRJ which crashed on final approach to Brest June 22th this year. I heard somewhere that the F/O stated, as they were on(rather screwed final) the Captain suddenly fell on the control column. @BR715-A1-30: The device you are dreaming of is just wishful thinking. Heart attacks happen sudd...
Jump to post- Thu Nov 13, 2003 6:34 pm
- Forum: Technical/Operations
- Topic: V1 On Long Runways
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5814
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
I have one side question: When there is plenty of runway available, the aircraft is light and there are no obstacles in the way, what about doing a takeoff at lower thrust setting and how this affects the takeoff procedures? May be a stupid question, but I've heard of some airlines implementing such...
Jump to post- Sun Nov 09, 2003 11:21 am
- Forum: Technical/Operations
- Topic: How To De-rate An Engine
- Replies: 12
- Views: 16164
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
Well...what about the following techniques: -lowering the compression ratio on piston engines(sometimes all you need to do this is a thicker cylinder head gasket or replacing the pistons and the rods). <acronym title="CSA Czech Airlines">OK</acronym>, this might be problematic, since with lower comp...
Jump to post- Sat Nov 08, 2003 8:43 pm
- Forum: Technical/Operations
- Topic: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6443
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
Sovietjet, Yes, I am Bulgarian, living in Germany by now(left Bulgaria 5 years ago, but still go down there for my summer vacation) As for the reversers of the Il-62 and the Tu-154: last night i talked with a former 154 Pilot and he was able to explain to me the whole thing: deploying the reverser v...
Jump to post- Wed Nov 05, 2003 9:10 am
- Forum: Technical/Operations
- Topic: Near Misses
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4511
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
I don't know if this has been posted here before, but here is a link to a website dedicated to one of the worst midair collisions ever happened(Inex Adria Aviopromet DC-9-32 and BEA HS121 Trident over Zagreb, 10 September 1976: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~abrkic/ I learned pretty soon about the a...
Jump to post- Sat Nov 01, 2003 10:19 pm
- Forum: Technical/Operations
- Topic: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6443
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
Sovietjet, Assuming, you're from Bulgaria, which version of the 154 did you see at LBSF? Balkan had both the <acronym title="Belavia (Belarus)">B2</acronym> and the M series. On the <acronym title="Belavia (Belarus)">B2</acronym>, they have cascade-type reversers, so it is not that easy to tell if t...
Jump to post- Sat Nov 01, 2003 11:23 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: JAT Unveils Low Cost Regional Airline
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3585
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
Being from Bulgaria, I wonder one thing - (don't take it as an offense, PLEASE). Most serbs have a natural hate for bulgarians(or at least I have experienced this many many times). While JAT's decision to include Bulgaria in the new LCC's destinations may be correct in economical terms, it is likely...
Jump to post- Thu Oct 30, 2003 11:05 pm
- Forum: Technical/Operations
- Topic: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6443
RE: What With Thrust Reverse Prior To Touchdown.
On the Il-62M, it is a standart procedure to use reversers prior to touchdown, and the 62 <acronym title="Island Airlines (USA) and Eagle Air/Arnaflug (Iceland)">IS</acronym> equipped with speedbrakes/spoilers. On both 62 design variants(62/62M the outboard engines are the only ones equipped with re...
Jump to post- Wed Oct 29, 2003 2:28 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Airline Call Signs
- Replies: 50
- Views: 33702
RE: Airline Call Signs
The "usual" callsigns for Airtran and Valujet have been listed here, but there is one more. Before the Valujet-Airtran merger was 100% complete, the company operated under the "Manatee"-callsign
Jump to post- Wed Oct 29, 2003 2:03 pm
- Forum: Technical/Operations
- Topic: Was This Plane Damaged Upon Landing?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5909
RE: Was This Plane Damaged Upon Landing?
Back in the 80's, Balkan lost one of their Il-18 somewhere in Africa because of a firm "nose-first"-landing. The aircraft bounced back in the air and then went down the runway bouncing. As it was under control, there was no more runway to stop safely...overshoot, structural damage, writeoff.
Jump to post- Sun Jun 29, 2003 1:08 pm
- Forum: Technical/Operations
- Topic: Saab 340/2000 Cargo...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7773
RE: Saab 340/2000 Cargo...
A conversion kit for the ATR is available directly by ATR:
http://www.atraircraft.com/atrcargo.htm
- Thu Jun 26, 2003 9:02 am
- Forum: Military Aviation & Space Flight
- Topic: Boeing: Euro Defense Operations Not Top Priority
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2667
RE: Boeing: Euro Defense Operations Not Top Priori
No rants intended, but it seems to me, Condit is speaking in streamlined diplomatic language, so the things he sais don't match the truth about what's going on. So, an attempt to translate it in normal language might sound like that: Said: "It's on the list... It's not on the top," Translates to: "T...
Jump to post- Tue Jun 24, 2003 8:23 am
- Forum: Technical/Operations
- Topic: 744 And A388 Water Evac
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4489
RE: 744 And A388 Water Evac
Here is one very unusual accident with aircraft performing not only successful ditching, but also remaining afloat: <a href="http://aviation-safety.net/database/1963/630821-2.htm" target=_blank>http://aviation-safety.net/database/1963/630821-2.htm</a> Well, I still wonder how this aircraft could sus...
Jump to post- Tue Jun 24, 2003 8:09 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Tankers In Action This Fire Season
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2863
RE: Tankers In Action This Fire Season
How long would it take till the Beriev Be-200 is certified and available on sale? I think this might be a viable alternative for the fire tankers fleet.
Jump to post- Mon Jun 23, 2003 9:47 am
- Forum: Technical/Operations
- Topic: No Winglet?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1560
RE: No Winglet?
Maybe this topic could be interesting:
https://www.airliners.net/discussions/tech_ops/read.main/19999/6/
- Sun Jun 22, 2003 12:43 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: The Most Funny Rego...
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4648
RE: The Most Funny Rego...
Here's my favourite: <br><center><font color="#EEEEEE" size="1" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva"><a href="/open.file/343423/L/" target="_blank">View Large</a> <a href="/open.file/343423/M/" target="_blank">View Medium<br><IMG SRC="/photos/small/3/2/4/343423.jpg" ALT="Click here for bigger photo!" bor...
Jump to post- Sat Jun 21, 2003 2:42 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Top 100 Stars Of Aerospace
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2819
RE: Top 100 Stars Of Aerospace
I miss Henry Coanda's name. Also, couldn't find Vladimir Juriev either, and these two names are very well recognizable for their contributions in aviation and deserve to be on the list.
Jump to post- Fri Jun 20, 2003 9:57 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Ryanair Refuses To Board Another Celebrity
- Replies: 34
- Views: 8005
RE: Ryanair Refuses To Board Another Celebrity
*lol* Broke, you got it right...After reading the thread, my imagination played a bit nuts, so here it is, what i came with - a well-known celebrity tries to board Ryanair, but doesn't have the proper <acronym title="Normandie Aviation (France)">ID</acronym>, so he/she is refused boarding. She gets ...
Jump to post- Thu Jun 19, 2003 10:44 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Outdated City Codes
- Replies: 36
- Views: 4172
RE: Outdated City Codes
what you all overlook: what's actually the reason to change the code? does it improve operational performance? does it improve safety, baggage handling or other significant parameters? Definitively NO. More likely, changing the code might induce some disturbance, misunderstanding and so on, which in...
Jump to post- Thu Jun 19, 2003 7:03 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Did MS Have Maersk's Permission?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1702
RE: Did MS Have Maersk's Permission?
Well...looks pretty like a rip-off with minor changes, but It could be as well an intentional rip-off as an own idea by somebody in the development team of FS2004(not necessarily inspired by Maersk). And, a small question *grin* since when Microsoft has the good habit of asking permission? They ripp...
Jump to post- Tue Jun 17, 2003 8:56 pm
- Forum: Non-Aviation
- Topic: GORDON/MONTOYA TRADIN' Paint
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2387
RE: GORDON/MONTOYA TRADIN' Paint
Not exactly a "trading paint"-occurence, but interesting anyway: Back in 1993, the Penske Team was doing some pre-season tests at the Firebird Raceway in Great Britain. following an invitation by Emerson Fittipaldi, Ayrton Senna attended the test and took the chance to make some laps in Emerson's Pe...
Jump to post- Mon Jun 16, 2003 8:01 am
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: The Economist Accuses Airbus Of Corruption
- Replies: 70
- Views: 7251
RE: The Economist Accuses Airbus Of Corruption
Srbmod: What you stat in your post: <i>Bribery may be S.O.P. in many parts of the world, but in a civilized West, such machinations are outdated and highly unethical.</i> might be right from theoretical poit of view, but facing the facts and thinking a bit more and this turns into wishful thinking. ...
Jump to post- Sun Jun 15, 2003 8:20 pm
- Forum: Technical/Operations
- Topic: "Doughnuts-on-a-rope"-contrails
- Replies: 7
- Views: 14380
RE: "Doughnuts-on-a-rope"-contrails
Jetguy:
U mean black helicopters piloted by little green men? 
Or the chemtrails from the AirForce flying saucers stationed at Groom Lake? 
- Sun Jun 15, 2003 6:49 pm
- Forum: Civil Aviation
- Topic: Warsaw - "Frédéric Chopin" - History Of The Name?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4902
RE: Warsaw - "Frédéric Chopin" - History Of The Na
Boeing4ever: Actually, there were two LOT Il-62's being named "Fryderik Chopin", one Il-62 and one Il-62M: Il-62: <acronym title="SATA Air Azores (Portugal)">SP</acronym>-LAC, the third Il-62 to be delivered to LOT, c/n 31401, delivered 24.3.1973, sold to the soviet Air Force in 1983 and re-register...
Jump to post- Sat Jun 14, 2003 10:31 am
- Forum: Technical/Operations
- Topic: "Doughnuts-on-a-rope"-contrails
- Replies: 7
- Views: 14380
"Doughnuts-on-a-rope"-contrails
With the recent discussion about the future of SST, I recalled one thing I've read about several times in the past. I am interested if somebody here knows more about the "dougnut-on-a-rope"-contrails. There are existing photos of this phenomenon and also some scarce information on the web. The <acro...
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